Gun Cleaning

About two weeks ago I purchased a Mosin Nagant from a local gun shop.  I decided not to pay the extra twenty dollars to get the gun cleaned. Although I knew little about the gun at the time I thought I could clean it.  Just today I decided to strip the gun and clean it.  That was a stupid idea.  I had never done something like this so I had little to no idea of what I was doing.  Needless to say I still got it clean and now know how to dismantle and piece the gun back together.  Here are some pictures from my interesting experience.

                                          This is the gun completely striped and cleaned.
                                       

                                          Here you can see (in more detail) The trigger,
                                          magazine, and bolt in greater detail.  Notice the bolt
                                          is actually in three pieces.

                                          This is the rifle once it has been completely cleaned
                                          and put back together.

                                          The bolt has been put back together and is now
                                          ready to shoot.  From this angle you can also see
                                          into the magazine.

This is by far my favorite part of the rifle.  Here if 

 you look closely you can see the Russian hammer

 and sicle.  Just under that stamp the date reads 1942.

                                             

A close up of the picture before.

Teen Court of Hopkins County

Well let me just explain first what Teen Court is.  Teen court is a system where you can be and attorney, clerk and even a jury member.  What we do is we set the punishment of Teens who have committed a crime.  Such as driving without a drivers license, small theft and even some drug related cases.  I quite enjoy the cases and the people I do it with.  Once court lets out you can expect a gang of sharp dressed young men and women to be wondering around on the square.  We usually head down to the popcorn shop then back to the square to consume our sweets and soda.  In all the program is really cool and I would encourage and of you who sound interested to find something like this in your county and try it out. 

 See the photo in the background, well one night I thought it would be so much fun to pose by that photo because it looks so cool.  At first all the other guys  wouldn't do it.

But then I got Shack to do it with me.

 Then I got Shack and Timothy to both pose with me.  Now its kind of a tradition.

 One night while walking on the square we decided to take some photos.  This is one of those spectacular images.

All of the girls in the popcorn shop.
















Now for the whole gang.  We don't normally take pictures but that night I decided to steal my brothers camera and take some photos.